The Impressionists will subsequently hold seven additional…

The Impressionists will subsequently hold seven additional shows, the last in 1886.

Degas, who had exhibited ten works at the group show, will take a leading role in organizing the exhibitions, and will show his work in all but one of them, despite his persistent conflicts with others in the group.

He has little in common with Monet and the other landscape painters, whom he mocks for painting outdoors.

Conservative in his social attitudes, he abhors the scandal created by the exhibitions, as well as the publicity and advertising that his colleagues seek.

He bitterly rejects the label Impressionist that the press has created and popularized.

The lack of color in the 1874 Ballet Rehearsal on Stage (and the 1876 The Ballet Instructor) can be said to link with his interest in the new technique of photography.

The changes to his palette, brushwork, and sense of composition all evidence the influence that both the Impressionist movement and modern photography, with its spontaneous images and off-kilter angles, have on his work.

Degas travels to Italy in the summer.